Cottingley Fairies
The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths in 1917. The pictures came to the attention of writer Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who used them to illustrate an article on fairies. In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked, using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from...